UNM to upgrade degree audit program
by Tricia Remark
If you’ve ever been frustrated
trying to understand your degree
audit online, help is on the way, according to the Office of Enrollment
Management.
The LOBO Trax degree audit is
an upgraded version of the current
E-Progress report, said Annette Torres, Enrollment Management senior
degree audit analyst. She said EProgress and Lobo Trax are made by
the same company. Students have
used E-Progress for 15 years to keep
track of their classes.
The program, which costs the
University $5,000, shows credits
needed to graduate, credits already
taken, and GPA, along with other
information.
Torres said E-Progress should
help students plan for graduation,
but it’s too hard for students to understand – advisers usually have to
interpret it.
“Probably the biggest complaint
that we would have about E-Progress was that it’s really hard to read,”
Torres said. “It’s black and white,
it’s very static and it can be a very
lengthy report.”
Junior Jesus “J” Valdez said he
used the E-Progress report when he
switched from University College to
the College of Arts and Sciences. He
said his adviser asked him to bring
a copy of the report to plan for his

future classes.
“My adviser kind of helped me
with E-Progress — she showed me
the page with the prerequisites and
all the classes you need for that and
she showed me how to read the report,” Valdez said.
Valdez said he used E-Progress
to plan his classes for the next few
years but would like to plan his
schedule without making a special
trip to advisement. He said E-Progress looks outdated and is hard to
read. A clearer degree audit would
help, he said.
“I’d definitely use an easier to
read E-Progress report,” Valdez said.
“The one that we have right now
seems like it’s the way the old computers print things out. It looks like
you’re reading a program on a command screen — it’s just all squished
together.”
LOBO Trax will be available to
students in March 2010.
Torres said the LOBO Trax degree audit will be a major improvement over the E-Progress report.
She said it’s colorful, organized and
easy to read.
“LOBO Trax actually is going to
have graphs and charts at the top
that you can click on,” Torres said.
“If you just want to see requirements
for your major, you click on it, open
it up, and it’s all in color.”
LOBO Trax will help students
plan classes and graduate on time,
she said. The “Course Planner” is

woman of UNM NMYO, said the
group has organized the fruit stand
twice and plans to open it again on
Friday.
“We sell organic and local fruit
and we’re trying to have that available for students on campus,” she
said. “If all they have is just fast
food, or something quick and easy
like chips at the convenience store,
we want them to have another option and show them that local food
is important.”

Beardsley said the group gets
fruit from La Montañita Co-op on
Central. She said they buy the fruit
in bulk from the Co-op and then sell
individual pieces of fruit for $0.50 to
$1.
“We got wholesale from them
for the first fruit stand, and we got
kind of a little bit too much, so we
gave the rest to Food Not Bombs,”
she said. “We sell apples and pears,
peaches, plums and nectarines.”
Beardsley said the group got the

money to purchase fruit from the
off-campus chapter of New Mexico
Youth Organized.
The group is trying to educate
students about the benefits of locally grown food, Beardsley said.
“Along with the fruit stand, we’re
passing out information about different food issues,” she said. “We
had stuff about food security and
the importance of local food. If people want to come get fruit, they can
get information, too. We want it to

extracted more specifics about the
proposed changes, as a commenter
asked for clarification about the increased number of college preparatory units. The comments are posted anonymously.
“The proposal is vague about
the incremental changes that will
be activated over a three-year period,” one commenter said. “The year
one adjustments are presented, but
there is no presentation which college preparatory units will be added
in years two and three.”
Representatives from Enrollment Management — also anonymous — responded.
“Year one will be the extra social
science. Year two extra lab science,”
they said. “Year three would ideally
be the fourth math.”
In a Sept. 23 interview, Terry Babbit, associate director of the Office

of Enrollment Management, said
data from the last three years indicates students who took more college preparatory courses were more
likely to complete their degrees.
Student Lawrence Alderete said
universities pushing students to
work harder in high school will benefit America as a whole.
“I think we need to raise the academic standards of all public universities in this country,” he said.
“It will make us a little bit more
competitive and able to sustain the
American way of life in the next 50
to 100 years.”
At the Sept. 23 Board of Regents
Student Affairs meeting, Regent
Carolyn Abeita said the public’s
suggestions for admissions changes
are valued.

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Joey Trisolini / Daily Lobo
Phil Tonne plays fetch with his dog Oscar outside the Art Building on Wednesday. Tonne, a
botanist, took a break from his work in Marron Hall for some bonding time with man’s best
friend.

one new feature of LOBO Trax that
lets students plan to take classes
two years in advance. Torres said
this feature will work well with newly implemented multi-term registration, which will be available in
fall 2010.
“What this program is going to
have that we’ve never had before
with the degree audit is a course
planner,” she said. “Students will
have the ability to see what classes
they need to take to complete their
degree. Then they can click on it
and add it into their course planner and it will show up in the audit
as what they’re planning to take in
the future.”
Torres said the Office of Enrollment Management will use the
LOBO Trax Course Planner to determine the popularity of future
classes. This will help them ensure
that these classes are available for
students.
Henry Gonzalez, Title-V Educational Initiatives program specialist, said students need to be careful
and recognize that using the course
planner and registering for classes is
not the same thing.
“The course planner is only for
planning, not for registration,” Gonzalez said. “Students will have to realize that just because you planned
classes in LOBO Trax, it doesn’t
mean you registered for them. It’s
just a tool to help students and
administration.”

A group of UNM students is offering a healthy alternative to the
snack options of chips and candy
available at the SUB.
The UNM chapter of New Mexico
Youth Organized has a fruit stand,
stocked with local and organic fruit,
near the duck pond.
Cheyenne Beardsley, co-chair-

Forum created to discuss new standards
by Kallie Red-Horse
Daily Lobo

UNM community members can
give input on proposed admissions
standards changes and get responses to their concerns by e-mailing the
Office of Enrollment Management.
The e-mails are posted on an online forum linked to the main page
of the UNM Web site. There have
been 33 comments on the forum
since it opened Oct. 1. To keep the
discussion going, students, faculty,
staff and community members can
comment until Nov. 15.
Implemented over a three-year
period, the new standards would
raise the GPA required for admission from 2.25 to 2.5 and raise the
number of college preparatory units
from 13 to 16.
The online forum has already

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be educational as well.”
Bruce Milne, program director of
the Sustainability Studies Program,
is the adviser for UNM NMYO.
Milne said he helped the students to
get the stand up and running.
Milne said the Sustainability
Studies Program connected the students with the Co-op.
“When they approached us, I
thought it was just a really fantastic

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but at the same time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to
talk about politics and the things
that I am interested in.
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with your dad as the mayor?
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I was three years old, so I was kind of
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and who he is.
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of who your dad is?

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This photo, provided by Larry R. Wagner, shows a 70-foot female blue whale that officials believe was struck by a ship. The whale has a gash on
its back estimated to be more than 8 feet long. It washed ashore on the Northern California coast Tuesday, near Fort Bragg, Calif.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A 70foot, female blue whale that officials believe was struck by a ship
has washed ashore on the Northern
California coast in what scientists
are calling a rare occurrence.
The whale was first spotted on
shore near Fort Bragg in Mendocino County on Monday night, hours
after an ocean survey vessel reported hitting a whale a few miles away,
said Joe Cordaro, a wildlife biologist
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marine
fisheries service.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual for blue whales to
wash ashore, Cordaro said. Last
week, another blue whale washed
up in Monterey County after being
hit by a ship.
Before that, the last time a blue
whale washed onto a California
beach was 2007.
The whales are â&#x20AC;&#x153;usually far offshore, deep water animals,â&#x20AC;? Cordaro
said.
Although blue whales are considered endangered, experts say they
have recently made a comeback and
now number several thousand.
Researchers have taken skin and
blubber samples from the beached
animal to see what contaminants it
may have been exposed to and what
population group it comes from.

Fruit stand

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police
said a gunman spent nearly 10 minutes on his knees praying with the
clerk at an Indianapolis check cashing business before fleeing with her
cell phone and $20 from the register. Security video from the Advance
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idea that serves a useful purpose of
providing healthy food to people on
campus,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Milne said UNM has partnered
with the Co-op to increase the
amount of local food sold in the
state.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Sustainability Studies
Program, we have an organization
called FoodPrint thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about developing the local food shed, and
the Co-op is a member of that,â&#x20AC;? he
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, this is one of those examples where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in association with
businesses outside of the campus
that are part of the sustainability

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ORANGE PARK, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Authorities searching for a missing
7-year-old north Florida girl said
they found the body of a young child
in a Georgia landfill Wednesday, but
it has not yet been identified.
Clay County, Fla., Sheriff Rick
Beseler first said the body was a female, but then corrected himself
and said he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet confirm
the gender. The parents of Somer
Thompson, who has been missing
since Monday, have been notified.
The body was found by Clay
County detectives who followed
garbage trucks from the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighborhood to Folkston, Ga., just north
of the Florida state line.
Beseler
said
investigators
searched through 100 tons of garbage before finding the partially
covered body. He did not give any
other details about the discovery.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was helping with the investigation and planned to conduct an
autopsy on the body Thursday in its
Savannah office, spokesman John
Bankhead said.

Fruit stand
Duck pond
Friday 12:30 - 4 p.m.
scene.â&#x20AC;?
Beardsley said she wants the
fruit stand to be a weekly event, but
she needs more students to help run
it. Right now, only two students are
available.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do it once a week,
but our schedules are pretty hectic,
so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been kind of not steady,â&#x20AC;? she
said.

and a 23-year-old man surrendered
Tuesday on a preliminary charge of
robbery.
The robbery took an unusual
turn after the gunman came around
the counter as the clerk told police
she began crying and then talked
about God. The man said he had
a 2-year-old child to support and
asked for prayers about overcoming
his hardships.

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police in a
Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his
daughter because she was becoming
too â&#x20AC;&#x153;Westernizedâ&#x20AC;? and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi
values.
Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly
ran his daughter down Tuesday at an
Arizona Department of Economic Security parking lot in Peoria.
The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh
Almaleki of Surprise, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
A second woman, 43-year-old
Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise,
suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police say the women are
roommates.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this is a very important
change, and we do need to get as
much input and comment as possible,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this affects
not just our community, but the
broader state community. We need
to give parents the opportunity to
comment on this.â&#x20AC;?
Student Zana Willie said that
raising standards would likely improve the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation.
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standards because it will be harder
to get it in.â&#x20AC;?

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From the web
In “Heinrich stumps for flu prevention,”
the Daily Lobo reported that Congressman
Martin Heinrich met with UNM health officials on Monday to visit the flu vaccination
clinic in the SUB and discuss how UNM is preparing for the H1N1 virus. Readers on DailyLobo.com responded:
by ‘smilinggreenmom’
Posted Tuesday
“I would also like to highly recommend a
good probiotic as well. I have been reading
up on all of this as much as possible and have
found that all the use of hand sanitizers actually kills the beneficial bacteria that our body
needs, too. So it is just as important to replenish them so we have the ability to fight off illness. Our family takes the Vidazorb chewables
and we really love them. Thanks for the info
here.”
by ‘mateo’
Posted Tuesday
“Yeah, stumping for flu prevention. Why
doesn’t he take a few moments and speak to
the people of his district about their feelings
concerning the government taking over health
care? Why doesn’t he ask our feelings on Cap
and Trade? Recent surveys show that people
in Heinrich’s district oppose government controlled health care by 65 to 35 percent, but
does he vote ‘No’? Every study done shows the
Cap and Trade bill is terribly wrong. The bill
will increase fuel costs for gasoline, heating oil
and natural gas. Where does Heinrich think
the energy and supply companies are going
to come up with the additional taxes and fees?
They’re going to pass it on to us. They always
do. So does Heinrich vote against such measures? No, he votes for them. You see, sometimes the people within a district don’t know
what’s really best for them. Sometimes a representative to congress must vote for measures he thinks will be better for his district
in the long run, even if the people there don’t
want it. Well, Martin Heinrich, sometimes the
people of this district will vote your sorry butt
out of office for not listening to us. Remember
you work for us. We pay your salary. We can
and probably will fire you next year. So in the
meantime, enjoy walking around the campus
and proclaiming the health care is a model for
the rest of the country. …”
by ‘chayal’
Posted Wednesday
“Mateo: Kind of off topic, but hey, I’m with
you. This guy voted in favor of keeping Charlie Rangel in the chairmanship of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Charlie freakin’
Rangel, the serial tax cheat. What does this say
about Heinrich’s judgment?Don’t count on the
lefties seeing the error of their ways and voting
this jerk out of office. It doesn’t suit their purposes. With them it isn’t about what is good
for the country or their community, but rather
what will assure them political power.”
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Bible contains stories of
genocide, suicide bomber
Editor,
The Bible contains some of the worst poison crap and some of the best precious wisdom
ever written. Many people tragically swallow
both the poison and the wisdom and proclaim
it all the word of God.
Deuteronomy 7:2 — “And when the Lord
your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them;
you shall make no covenant with them and
show no mercy to them.”
Joshua 10:40 — “So Joshua smote the whole
land. … He left none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.”
Samson was a suicide bomber. He prayed
for God to strengthen him to do revenge and
to murder his enemies as he killed himself.
The building Samson destroyed was full of
men and women, and 3,000 more people were

University should encourage
use of public transportation
Editor,
Instead of building a $17 million parking structure at Lomas and Yale boulevards, UNM Parking and Transportation Services should simply construct a

‘Black Gold’ sheds light on
where students’ money goes
Editor,
Last November, many students voted for the first time in their lives after they
chose not to do so in previous elections.
The saying that “money talks, people walk”

on the roof, (Judges 16:25-30). Samson killed
more people that day than were killed on Sept.
11, 2001 at the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. Have you heard any preacher, priest
or rabbi strongly condemn Samson’s vengeful
mass murder of thousands of people?
For more torture and mass murder in the
name of God, read the books of Deuteronomy
and Numbers in the Bible. Hitler was not the
first to commit genocide. Columbus and other European invaders of the Americas were
not the first to massacre indigenous people in
the name of God.
The Bible states that the Lord God commanded total genocide of every man, woman
and child living in Palestine more than 3,000
years before Hitler. Today this is the U.S. Empire’s nuclear bomb policy toward targeted
“enemy” nations.
No wonder many Bible-believers who
swallow the Bible’s poison crap as the word of
God can build and finance nuclear weapons
and wage war with no conscience, no guilt
and no shame.
Those Bible verses stating that God

commanded mass murder are spiritual poison. Those verses depict a vicious cosmic terrorist whom I refuse to worship and I would
never want to spend eternity with.
Many tribes and nations throughout history believed they were God’s favorites, God’s
chosen people. They used God’s name to justify slaughtering their enemies.
The Bible’s precious wisdom teaches us to
love, forgive and do good to our enemies, to
conquer evil with good, to treat all people as
we want others to treat us, to apologize and
make amends when we wrong others, to live
simply and to reject addiction to money and
status.
Gandhi said the only people on Earth who
do not realize Jesus was nonviolent are Christians. Read the Bible with extreme caution always. Spit out its poison crap. Take to heart its
wisdom and aim to live it. Use compassion for
all as the main test to separate its poison crap
from its precious wisdom.

$50 bus stop for its ubiquitous shuttles.
A shuttle stop at Lomas and Yale would
give faculty, students and staff easy access
to the city buses that pass by there almost
every 10 minutes. And access to the Albuquerque City Bus system is the crucial key
to a seat on the New Mexico Rail Runner.
Parking and Transportation Services can build expensive parking lots
and structures until they are blue in

the face, but that really won’t solve
UNM’s underlying parking problems.
UNM can show its support for alternative
transportation
by
insisting that Parking and Transportation
place a shuttle stop at Lomas and Yale.
Let’s try something different for a change.

still rings true. The fact of the matter is that students cast a vote every single day with the dollars they spend on food and other goods. The
money you spend on a daily basis on goods
can have a bigger impact on the world than on
the ballots you cast once every couple of years.
Companies compete for your money every day. How you spend it has a
far-reaching effect around the world.
I would like to invite and challenge fellow

students to attend a special film screening today,
Oct. 22, of “Black Gold” at 6:30 p.m. The event
is sponsored by the UNM Fair Trade Initiative.
Students of all majors and professions can attend, and you’ll be especially interested if you
are studying sociology, economics, political
science or management.

Don Schrader
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Chuck Reuben
UNM staff

Ahmad Musleh
UNM student

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The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal agents seized computers, papers, books and electronic equipment from the home of a former
Los Alamos National Laboratory
nuclear scientist, who believes the
government is wrongly targeting
him as a spy.
P. Leonardo Mascheroni told
The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home
Wednesday that four FBI agents
searched his home for 13 hours on
Monday. The agents, he said, led
him to believe they were investigating him for espionage.
“I am not a spy,” Mascheroni said. “If I were a spy, a long
time ago I would have gone away
from the United States with all my
knowledge. Instead, I stay in my
house all the time and am working
all the time and presenting all the
time to Congress. Is that what a spy
does?”
FBI spokesman Darrin Jones
confirmed the agency is pursuing
an “ongoing investigation” in Los
Alamos, but declined further comment Wednesday. No charges have
been filed against Mascheroni.
Meanwhile, Mascheroni’s wife,
Marjorie, a technical writer at the
lab, was placed on administrative
leave Monday while the lab conducts an internal investigation,

according to the lab.
P. Leonardo Mascheroni joined
the northern New Mexico lab in
1979, and worked in its X Division,
which designs nuclear weapons,
until 1987. He was laid off in 1988.
Lab spokeswoman Lisa Rosendorf said he lost his job during layoffs that were prompted by budget
cuts, but his supporters at the time
said he was blackballed by the lab.
Mascheroni said he believes the
current investigation stems from
his longtime criticism of the U.S.
government’s nuclear program
and, more specifically, from a recent meeting he had with a man
claiming to be a representative
from the Venezuelan government.
He said he supports a hydrogen-fluoride laser to generate fusion, the energy source of the sun.
That type of energy, he says, is
cleaner, not radioactive and would
produce a more reliable nuclear
weapons stockpile.
After the government and national labs took the U.S. nuclear
program in a different direction,
Mascheroni said he worked for
three decades — first within the
U.S. Department of Energy and the
labs and then with Congress — to
get a national hearing on his scientific proposals.
He said that in the fall of 2007,
he approached the Venezuelan
government — along with physics departments at universities

in England and France — to see
about a job to pursue his work. He
was contacted in February 2008
by a man who said he represented
the Venezuelan government and
wanted to learn about starting a
weapons program.
The two met twice at a Los Alamos hotel for a total of 90 minutes,
Mascheroni said.
“I never passed information
which I consider classified to a
reporter or to Congress or to anybody,” Mascheroni said. “The information I passed is information
I got from the Internet.”
Mascheroni said he provided the man with a CD containing
unclassified information widely
available on the Internet. He said
he hoped the Venezuelan government would hire him to work on
his hydrogen-fluoride laser fusion project in New Mexico, which
would help him prove his case to
Congress.
He asked that $400,000 be deposited into his Los Alamos bank
account, but he was never paid.
Rosendorf said she could not
provide further details about the
lab’s investigation of Mascheroni’s
wife. She said Marjorie Mascheroni’s “Q’’ clearance, the highest
clearance level that gives her access to classified information, has
been revoked and she does not
have access to the lab.

Plane crash in Dubai kills at least six
by Adam Schreck

The Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
— A Sudanese cargo plane crashed
Wednesday shortly after takeoff
from Sharjah airport near Dubai,
killing at least six crew members.
The Boeing 707 operated by Sudan Airways went down in unpopulated desert about two miles north
of the airport, said Sheik Khalid alQassimi, director of the Sharjah department of civil aviation. He said
there were no survivors among the
six crew members aboard.
Sudan’s official SUNA news
agency quoted an unnamed official from the airline as saying seven
crew members were killed. The discrepancy in the toll could not immediately be reconciled.
As night fell, the cause of the
crash remained unclear. The “black
box” flight recorders that should
contain information about the

flights have been recovered, alQassimi said.
Witnesses described seeing the
plane swing sharply to the right
shortly after takeoff as it struggled
to gain altitude.
“We saw it taking off at quite a
low level. The nose was quite high.
Higher than normal,” said Bill Buchanan, a Dubai resident who was
playing golf nearby. “It veered to
the right, then nosed down straight
into the desert. There was a huge
ball of fire and smoke.”
The wreckage was spread over a
wide area near the Sharjah Golf &
Shooting Club. Little of the plane
remained intact.
A tower of black smoke poured
hundreds of feet into the air immediately after the crash, said Martin
Duff, who was in his office at the
golf academy when he heard a loud
jet pass by overhead.
“A couple of seconds later there
was a big bang, and the whole

Chavez from page 2
MC: In high school, it was a lot
more common because people
know each other’s names and histories more. In college, I am not
known as the mayor’s daughter
anymore. When I’m not with my
parents, I’m pretty anonymous.
When I’m with my parents is when
people recognize me the most.
DL: Have you ever felt limited
in social situations by your dad’s
profession?
MC: My mom has made sure that
my little brother and I have had a
completely normal life. Nothing is
different from anyone else except
the fact that my dad has a public
job. I wouldn’t say that I feel like I
can’t do certain things that normal
teenagers do.
DL: How do you think things
will be different now that your dad
is no longer mayor?
MC: I think it’s going to be very
different. There was a period of four
years where my dad was not the
mayor because he was running for
governor, so I’m trying to remember those four years to see how it’s
going to be now. I think that we are
going to be spending a lot more

time together which will be nice,
because even though I respect the
fact that he has a busy job and is
a busy person, I think that family
should always come first. So, now
that he is not mayor, we will be able
to be more of a close family.
DL: Is it odd seeing him in public situations in comparison to how
he is at home?
MC: Obviously, my dad, when
he’s giving press conferences, is
talking about certain issues and
he’s not going to be as laid back as
he normally is. When he’s home
with us he jokes around and we
just have a typical father-daughter
relationship.
DL: What do you like to do in
your spare time?
MC: I go to school and I hang
out with my friends. Since I’ve
gone to college, family has been
the most important thing to me. I
like to spend a lot of time with my
little brother and my mom. The
most fun I have is when I’m with
my family.
~Kallie Red-Horse

ground shuddered,” he said. He
rushed to the scene, about 50 yards
away. “By the time I got there, it was
nothing but burnt black wreckage.”

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Doug Gardner of Arlington,
Va., is revolutionizing the world of
paper puzzles in his spare time.
Gardner, a computer security
specialist, created the “Octo” puzzle in the summer of 2007.
Like Sudoku and Kakuro, the
puzzle plays with positional logic
and adding numbers together. It
requires players to place numbers
1-8 in a certain order to match a
sum diagonally and linearly. There
are numbers at the end of each diagonal and line.
“I am a huge puzzle fan, I have
liked them all my life,” Gardner
said. “I have always been interested in crosswords, word searches,
things like that. I also was very interested in math at an early stage,
which led to puzzles. Like a lot of

people, I was taken by Sudoku. It’s
really neat how it makes you think
about how things fit uniquely into
a pattern.”
Gardner said he tried different
shapes for the puzzle, and the octagon proved to be the best fit.
“After I got the structure right,
I started filling them out by hand,”
he said. “Eventually I created a
computer program that could
generate puzzles within minutes.
There was still trial and error on
top of the computer program because I had to set certain rules to
make sure there is only one valid
answer.”
Gardner said solving a puzzle
can take 10 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on the level of difficulty. The “Octo” puzzles can be
completed by players of any age,
particularly late elementary students and up, Gardner said.

“My 9-year-old daughter can
do the easiest ones,” he said. “They
can be done by anyone. College
students have really been taken by
it too because it has a competitive
edge to it.”
Gardner said no major publishing company has expressed
interest in the puzzles yet. He said
the puzzle needs to reach a group
of people who are willing to “convert” to a different kind of puzzle. Gardner wants the puzzles to
be published in newspapers, in
books, and on Web sites.
“It is fun to go through the
learning processes,” Gardner said.
“I didn’t know about patenting
and marketing, so I am learning
as I go. Now the puzzle is done, in
the sense that it isn’t just an idea

see Octo puzzle page 10

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XPaul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, traveled to Antarctica to get footage for his performance on Saturday at the Kimo Theater.
Student rush tickets are $10, 10 minutes before the show.

DJ blends icy sounds and chamber music
by Alisha Catanach
Daily Lobo

DJ Spooky

Antarctica is the star of an upcoming multimedia piece, while live
turntable music will play the supporting role.
Paul Miller — aka DJ Spooky,
That Subliminal Kid — will perform
a 70-minute audio visual piece titled
“Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” at
the Kimo Theater on Saturday. A
quartet of local chamber musicians
will accompany him.
“It’s meant to be a kind of total
digital media experience,” he said.
“I try to get people to think outside
the box about what DJing means —
is it about film, is it about music, is
it about literature? Basically, most
people think DJing is just making a
party rock. ... That’s cool, but I think
there’s a lot more to it than that.”
Miller spent more than four
weeks in Antarctica in 2007 and recorded sounds of the melting ice
caps in a portable studio.
Video footage of Antarctica plays
on a backdrop during “Terra Nova:
Sinfonia Antarctica,” and the score
captures the continent’s harsh geographical environment.
“I guess you could say it’s all
about landscape,” Miller said.
“Sound is waves and patterns, and
so is the land beneath your feet. Tectonic plate movement, gravity, you
name it. Ice is just a pattern too, so I
wanted to figure out a way to transform it into music.”
Miller said he was inspired to go
to Antarctica by the complexity and
beauty of the natural world.
“The world is changing so quickly, I just wanted to make a document
about it, and think of the Earth as a
different kind of record,” he said.
“If you really look at all the different things going on, one of the most
subtle and beautiful situations that
makes life worth living on this planet is the beauty of the natural world.
It’s something we’ve lost.”
The Outpost Performance Space
and 516 Arts are hosting the event as
part of the Land/Art project, which

ends in November.
Land/Art works through a collaboration of organizations throughout
New Mexico to host artists and exhibitions with land-based art.
Tom Guralnick, executive director of The Outpost Performance
Space, said it is a treat to have Miller
perform “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” in New Mexico.
“It’s been performed in several places, but not that many, so it’s
pretty special we are bringing it here
to New Mexico,” Guralnick said.
Suzanne Sbarge, project coordinator of Land/Art and Director
of 516 Arts, said she was excited to
have Miller be a part of Land/Art.
“It adds a wonderful scope to
the Land/Art project, the way that
he combines turntables, chamber
quartet and video all into one multimedia performance,” Sbarge said.
Katie Harlow, a local cellist, will
be playing in the quartet alongside
Miller on Saturday. She said the
score has a series of riffs that can
be repeated or rearranged based on
what Miller wants to do that night.
“It’s really fun to work with somebody who is a DJ artist,” Harlow said.
“It’s a newer genre, so it’s fun to have
that expanded musical vocabulary
to draw from.”
Miller has worked with a number
of artists throughout the years, from
Kool Keith to Killah Priest, from the
Wu-Tang Clan to Yoko Ono, among
others.
Miller’s newest CD, The Secret
Song was released this month and
features special guests including
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and

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Rob Smith of the Executioners.
Student tickets for Saturday are
$10, 10 minutes before the show,
based on availability. Otherwise,
students get $5 off the regular seating prices from $20 - $30.
After the show, patrons can
meet DJ Spooky at a reception in
the Richard Levy Gallery across
the street from the Kimo Theater.
There will also be an open house
at 516 Arts.

Imagine getting to rub elbows
with your favorite band, but in a
strangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house with 50 other people you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the general idea of a house show.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be honest, I always enjoy
going to and playing house shows
more,â&#x20AC;? said Kendal Fortson, lead
singer of The William Tell Act. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
the closest thing to the original basement shows of punk and hardcore
days. This is like an underground
within an underground.â&#x20AC;?
Fortsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band performs this
Saturday at Gold Manor, along with
bands Hour of the Wolf, I Call Fives,
and Dead Hours. Far from being a
professional concert venue like the
Sunshine Theater or Journal Pavilion, Gold Manor is just a house
owned by local Albuquerqueans. It
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have a stage.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literally people saying,
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Come into my house.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Fortson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have some sweaty
bands and sweaty kids having a
good time.â&#x20AC;?
In the spirit of community, Fortsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band will also trade merchandise for food to be donated to Food
Not Bombs.
Because of Albuquerqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small
music scene, touring indie and
punk bands would often skip the
city, Fortson said. However, with
the growth of the house party scene,
musical artists like JDP and The
Warriors are now willing to play in
the Duke City.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can be very difficult in New
Mexico to get some decent shows,â&#x20AC;?
Fortson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In response to that,
the youth in Albuquerque has really
stepped in this kind of house show
atmosphere. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like regular
venues.â&#x20AC;?

House shows are also gaining
popularity with certain bands who
like to interact with the audience directly, Fortson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bands tend to keep coming
through,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bands get
all the money from the door. Certain bands, every time they come
through, they play a house show.
Hour of the Wolf is one of the bands.
â&#x20AC;Ś And they always get a really big
showing.â&#x20AC;?
But some fans might find the intimacy to be too much. Local concertgoer and UNM student, Estevan
Ramirez, said his experience at Gold
Manor was uncomfortable.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went there, and tried to get
in, but I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in,â&#x20AC;? Ramirez
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sound was so loud that
even with all the people you could
hear the echo outside. I wish it was
bigger.â&#x20AC;?
The house scene in Albuquerque
continues to grow thanks to the efforts of underground promotion
groups Subterranean Albuquerque
and You Vandal Promotions, Fortson said. And as the house scene
expands, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developing its own
community.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you go to some of the
bigger shows, you go there, you see
the band, and you go home,â&#x20AC;? Fortson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At these kinds of shows
you go there and you get to know
people, and you make friends, and
then you hear about other shows
and hear about other events going
on. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a much more active
scene. It is its own culture; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not
just a venue.â&#x20AC;?
However, the success of a
house show also depends on the
band thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing, said another local concertgoer, David Cappy. With a band youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re familiar with, it might be better to see
them at a larger venue, he said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just feels like a party to me where
there happens to be music, although
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the party is happening,â&#x20AC;?
he said.
Newcomers to the house show
scene should expect a bit of goodnatured teasing about their musical
tastes from established members of
the community, Fortson said. However, if newcomers are serious about
the spirit of indie music, they will be
accepted.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think at the end of the day, everybody realizes nobody is born liking Spaz (music),â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone has to develop and learn about
music. I have seen a lot of people
who are new, and a lot of people
come and go. If someone is interested, and they are a friendly person,
people are going to take to them like
a duck to water.â&#x20AC;?
Fortson said perhaps the biggest
advantage of a house show over a
regular concert is the way it reduces
the grandeur of rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll stars and
brings them back down to earth.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re into big theatrical
rock it would take away from that
(grandeur), but I would also say if
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you are into, this probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be your thing because
punk and hardcore has always been
about getting rid of the illusion of
the rock star,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right
there with the band. House shows
are the way to go to kind of tear
down those walls. The bands and
fans are of equal importance.â&#x20AC;?

have social benefits. Having a book
with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Octoâ&#x20AC;? puzzles could be used to
entertain, kill time, and teach people
to work together, she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was addicting,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
had to finish it once I started it.â&#x20AC;?
Gardner said completing the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Octoâ&#x20AC;? puzzle requires persistence,
and having a puzzle that is different
from Sudoku gives puzzlers more
variety.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is satisfying for me to service
those who are looking for something different,â&#x20AC;? Gardner said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Octoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is healthy entertainment. I
enjoy them enough to test all the

ones I create. I think it is important for people to practice logical
thinking.â&#x20AC;?
Gardner said puzzles give
wwwwpeople a different type of entertainment than watching TV or
movies.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It helps your cognitive powers,â&#x20AC;?
he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the idea of good wholesome entertainment. Puzzles are not
plagued with standard issues that
are found in movies and TV. Puzzles
give social issues because you can
work together on them. It is just important to find mental challenges. It
is good for you.â&#x20AC;?

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that needs to be built. The puzzle actually exists, and now I am just seeing
where it leads.â&#x20AC;?
Scott Free, a graduate of Montana
State, worked on one of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Octoâ&#x20AC;?
puzzles for the first time on Monday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the puzzle was sophisticated,â&#x20AC;? Free said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many
dimensions of variability. I think
there are more dimensions in it than
Sudoku. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how a person could generate these and put in
enough information into it to make it
solvable. That makes it intriguing.â&#x20AC;?
Jacque Marquez, a freshman at
UNM, said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Octoâ&#x20AC;? puzzles also

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